Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

  • -- Washington Irving 华盛顿欧文

诚实的好幽默是愉快的聚会的油和酒,没有一种愉快的友谊比得上那些笑话相当小而笑声却很丰富的友谊。

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An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

一种数量非常丰富的动物,在它灭绝之前,就变得稀有了。所以你不会失去大量的动物。你总是失去稀有动物。因此,他们不会被认为是一个巨大的损失。

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

但当你长时间失去它,你就会珍惜人类的陪伴。但你必须活下来,所以你设计了各种各样的心理练习,这很神奇。

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

酒能使人一无所有……它只会使冻结在霜里的东西运动起来。

To get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.

要得到快乐的全部价值,你必须有人与你分享。

Old friends and old wine are best.

陈酒味醇,老友情深。